Aral Balkan on Building the People’s Internet

Listen to Aral Balkan, cyborg rights activist, designer and developer, outline the problem with surveillance capitalism and explain how we can avoid it to build a People’s Internet starting right here in the EU.

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P2P Foundation

The P2P Foundation is a global network of researchers, activists, and citizens monitoring and promoting actions geared towards a transition to a Commons-based society. We are a decentralized, self-organized, globally distributed community building an information-commons ecosystem for the growing P2P/Commons movement. We examine both the digital and the material worlds, their freedoms and restrictions, scarcities and abundances. We are an incubator and catalyst, focusing on the "missing pieces" and the interconnectedness that can lead to a wider movement. Find out more.